This year, this page will be used
mainly for "National" stature regattas, e.g. regattas that might draw
boats from outside the local fleets. This would include, for example, Key West
RW, SORC, Charleston RW, the NOOD regattas, SF Big Boats, et al. I'll gladly
consider exceptions of note however.

Charleston J/105 Fall ChampionshipNovember, 2001

The Charleston J/105 Fall Championship
was a sailor's paradise this past weekend: Balmy breezes; 72 degree shirtsleeve
weather; the sun low enough not to be intense; a moderating water temperature
of 62 degrees; good camaraderie; eight races over two days. The two birds came
out on top. Bob Johnstone's TERN 7 and Fred Stone's PUFFIN finished 1-2
in the 9 boat fleet. And, the margin of victory was a half boat length in the
7th race. This regatta (Nov 17-18) capped a four event J/105 one-design
series in the Southeast. TERN 7 won the first two regattas, the Geechee Sailing
Club's Savannah Octoberfest (Oct 6-7) and the Hilton Head Yacht Club's Calibogue
Cup (Oct 20-21), both in class and overall PHRF. PUFFIN won the South Atlantic
Yacht Racing Association's offshore championship (Oct 27-28). The
Charleston event featured a North Sails Racing Clinic hosted by local North
lofts George & Peter Durst with moderator Will Keyworth from Annapolis.
Seminars were held both Friday and Saturday evenings with coaching from a whaler
permitted throughout the two-day event. On Saturday, 2 short practice races
were followed by a close reaching spinnaker sprint race up the Ashley with
Jack King's MERRYTHOUGHT prevailing. The J/105s then sailed one-design
as Class 1 of the Charleston Yacht Club's 12.5 mile Big Boat race around government
marks in the harbor in lots of current and winds varying all over the compass.
TERN 7 pulled a rabbit out the hat to win, having been a deep 4th around the
last windward mark. Sunday was a spectacular sailing day in a 10-15 knot Northerly
with 30 degrees shifts. Three double WLs were run prior to a final sprint race,
a beat up the Cooper River to the Charleston Harbor Marina for the awards presentation.
For some indication of how all this sailing affected the quality of the fleet,
4 different boats won the last 4 races and 5 boats were rounding the weather
mark within 6 feet of one another. At the awards ceremony on the dock, Fleet
Captain and host Bob J., in breaking with the traditional 1, 2, 3 award routine,
declared everyone to be winners, that this was the purpose of the weekend. He
presented custom-made Wired & Fired 12" pottery J/105 Hors d'oerves
platters in fall colors to the participants. Each platter was labeled "Winner".
Everyone won something.... whether it was longest distance prize, being stuck
in the mud the longest or having the best looking boat...not to mention
a few handed out for placing well in the races.

This past weekend, October 12-14,
J/Fest 2001 was held at San Diego Yacht Club. This is an event began by Sail
California, the local J-Boat dealer, for J-Boats only. Friday afternoon there
was a charity race for San Diego Wellness Community, a cancer support organization.
It was followed by a calypso party with an auction. In all, the event raised
some $19,000. The actual racing was Saturday and Sunday. We had very pleasant
weather - warm days and mostly good winds. The big problem racing off Point
Loma is the kelp. It was as bad as I've seen it and you constantly saw crews
flossing the keel or using a kelp stick on the rudder. The J-105 class was the
largest with 19 entries. The Southern California fleet has grown dramatically
in the last two years - in 1999 the event drew maybe 6 boats. In 2000, we had
eleven. Now in 2001, nineteen. The winning crew was Javelin, hull # 394, owned
by Doug and Pam Werner. They sailed a very consistent series, never winning
an individual race but not finishing worse than 6th. Second was Legacy, #190,
Brian Dougherty, also with a consistant series. Third place, and definitely
hard luck boat of the regatta, was Fleet Captain Tom Carruthers' Incorrigible,
#435. Tom was tied with Javelin going into the final race and finished 17th
to Javelin's 3rd. The fleet looks set for more growth next year. Most of the
growth has been in San Diego, but several boats are on order in the Los Angeles/Long
Beach Harbor area.

North American Championship,
Larchmont Yacht Club
September 21-23, 2001

Knox Long Race
June 23, 2001

The Knox Long was not so long as
the race committee chose the shortest course on a very windy day. The fleet
enjoyed a couple of exhilarating downwind legs to compensate for the challenges
of beating upwind in 25+ knots. Bella Rosa led everyone around the course to
finish first, followed by Blackhawk and Sails Call. Check out the results on
the YRA
website. We are now officially half way through the season with 20 races
and 5 throwouts.Good Timin's lead over Sails Call remains at seven points.;
The only changes in the top ten are that Bella Rosa has moved up one place to
sixth, and Natural Blonde has bumped Irrational Again to eleventh and is now
in a tie for ninth with Advantage3.

While the East Coast was enjoying
a 30 boat fleet at Block Island, the Southern California Fleet #8 had a 10 boat
turnout June 22-24 for the North Sails Race Week in Long Beach, CA. There were
about 160 entries, including Dennis Connor's new Stars and Stripes (ex-Morning
Glory), one of the new Transpac 52's (Victoria) and an assortment of other boats,
large and small. There were three separate course areas. The J-105's raced inside
Long Beach Harbor on Friday for a 4:00 race, outside about 2 1/2 miles southeast
of Alamitos Bay on Saturday and back inside on Sunday. All three days were warm
and sunny with good winds. On Friday, the race started with winds around 13-15
kts. and faded as the evening came on. Tom Carruthers in Incorrigible set what
became a pattern for him in winning the first race. He was followed by Dale
Byrne/Sam Merrell in No Compromise and Abbot Brown/Ken Lemberger in J-Hawk.
Saturday's first race was sailed in a nice 12-15 kt. breeze. Again Tom Carruthers
topped the fleet, with Larry Harvey (trying out Clouseau) in second, followed
by Doug and Pam Werner in Javelin. By the second race, the wind had picked up
substantially - we saw apparent winds of up to 25 kts. We watched Tom Carruthers
start prematurely, return and restart and proceed to sail through the entire
fleet for another first. Clouseau picked up another second and No Compromise
was third. By the way, Larry is not exactly a stranger to J-105's. He placed
second in the Masters Regatta in J-105's last fall in San Francisco against
some nobodies named Malin Burnham, Bob Johnstone, Paul Elvstrom, Lowell North
and Pelle Petterson, among others.

Sunday, inside the harbor, we had
lighter air - maybe 11-12 kts. In the first race, Tom was squeezed out at the
Committee boat and had to make a complete circle to get in. Despite that, by
the final downwind leg he had moved up to 3rd. Then, lady luck reared her beautiful
head, when Bill Fields in Ancara who was leading by a good distance and Larry
Harvey who had a solid second, for some reason forgot that it was a downwind
finish and sailed on past the finish line. Only when Tom had the whistle for
yet another first did they realize their mistake and head back upwind. In the
final race, it started at about the same wind as the first race and built to
about 16 before dying slightly. In a very close race with positions changing
frequently, it was Tom Carruthers over No Compromise at the finish by 5 seconds.
An amazing series for Tom with 5 bullets. He had the entire fleet scratching
their heads. Larry Harvey sailed an excellent series (except for the course
chart incident) for second, followed by No Compromise one point back and J-Hawk
4 points back. Full results are on the Fleet 8 website, found through the J-105
Association website.

Bill Johnson
"Despicable"

Chicago NOOD
June 15-17, 2001

Final Standings

SAILING WORLD NOOD REGATTA IN CHICAGO

Class:

J-105

20

Registrations

Type:

OD

5

Races to Date

Scoring:

Low Point

Throwouts:

0

Tiebreaker:

RRS A8 Method

POS

ID

SKIPPER

BOAT NAME

TOTAL

RACE 1

RACE 2

RACE 3

RACE 4

RACE 5

NUMBER

POINTS

6/15/2001

6/15/2001

6/16/2001

6/16/2001

6/17/2001

1

51571

Weglarz

CARESS

20

10

1

3

3

3

2

50638

Edman

PRONTO II

24

7

3

1

9

4

3

424

Wagner

GIGI

25

2

4

2

12

5

4

390

Certare Syndicate

CERTARE

28

8

5

7

1

7

5

370

Petkovic / Team Zot

USA 370

29

1

10

P08

9

8

1

6

J46

Siegal

LUCKY DUBIE

32

3

7

13

7

2

7

50785

Radtke / Laughlin

MOSQUITO

35

5

15

5

4

6

8

104

Petkus

VYTIS

43

11

13

8

2

9

9

288

Candea

MESSY JESSY

50

4

16

6

6

18

10

287

Falk

INTANGIBLE

53

9

6

16

5

17

11

271

Nichols

TOP TICK

53

6

10

12

11

14

12

51078

Wollerman

FAST FORWARD

56

12

8

10

10

16

13

295

Smith

NEW WORLD

61

15

9

11

14

12

14

233

Glover

TEMPEST

63

13

18

4

17

11

15

383

Baranski

SPACE COWBOY

69

16

12

18

15

8

16

123

Hastings

JOIE DE VIE

73

14

11

17

16

15

17

282

Goldman

REPETE

75

18

17

14

13

13

18

377

Reagan/Ganeh

GONZO

84

17

19

19

19

10

19

231

Watson

LA CHAMAD

85

19

14

15

18

19

20

51050

Heun / Borgogni

LIQUID COURAGE

105

21

DNC

21

DNC

21

DNC

21

DNC

21

DNC

Pacific Coast Championship
June 9-10, 2001

So here are the preliminary results,
although I don't think there were any protests and the awards were handed out....

There were 33 starters. Weather was
bright and sunny. All races were in a moderate flood (3 knots max). Winds were
light for SF Bay. First day started in about 12 knots and built to about 20.
Second day started in 10 knots and never got above 15 or so. Race Manager extraordinaire,
Mat Jones, managed to set the finish of the final race in a big wind hole in
the middle of the flood, making it a challenge to get across the line. Hospitality
by the San Francisco Yacht Club was superb. Full results at SFYC
site.

Out here on the west coast, 6 J/105's
competed this weekend in California Yacht Club's (Matina Del Rey) Cal Race Week.
Dale Byrne and Sam Merrell's No Compromise had three bullets on Saturday with
Tom Carruthers' Incorrigible next with 2-3-2 finishes. On Sunday, Tom won the
first race with Dale and Sam in second - setting up a final race showdown. The
start was interesting as Tom tried to match race Dale and Sam and keep them
from the start line. Tom won with No Compromise in third. It was still enough
for No Compromise to win the regatta by a point. The next stop on the Southern
California high point circuit is North Sails Race Week in Long Beach, June 22-24.
I understand the J/105 fleet currently has 13 entries. Results for Cal Rac Week
can be found at www.Calyachtclub.com. I'll e-mail you a couple of photos as
soon as I download them from the camera. Photo1: No
Compromise. Photo2: J-Hawk.

SAILING WORLD DETROIT NOOD MARKED
BY STIFF BREEZE, HIGH SPIRITS ---Winners in 23 Classes Prevail After Three Days
of Racing Detroit (Mich.) June 3, 2001 - The heavy downpours and gray skies
that rolled over Lake St. Clair during the Sailing World Detroit NOOD (National
Offshore One-Design) Regatta did little to shatter the enthusiasm of some 1,200
sailors competing in this first major sailing regatta of the season. Competitors'
spirits ran counter to the gloomy weather--and for good reason: this NOOD regatta
will stand out in sailors' memories as a career highlight for its large competitive
fleet and an usual run of three consecutive days of stiff, teen-strength breeze.

One sailor who had good reason to
celebrate was William "Billy Bob" Cox (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), winner of the
first J/105 class to compete at the Detroit NOOD. Cox's crew on Creative LTC
entered the final day of racing in a three-way tie for third, with the class
leader a full 10 points ahead. Odds for a first-place trophy by day's end were
slim in this 18-boat class, but Cox and his crew stayed in phase throughout
the day: they passed six boats upwind in the final race to take the class win.
Points calculations were so close that Cox and his crew did not know they had
cinched the class title when they reached the docks. In second place, only one
point behind Cox, was Mike Elliott (Linden, Mich.) and his crew on Bernoulli.

It was a fantastic City Front regatta
sailed in our normal heavy air sea breeze and a flood tide meaning close tacking
up the City Front. If you haven't done that, you go into the beach on starboard,
call for sea room, and come out on port. VERY EXCITING. and a LOT of hard work.
San Francisco Bay racing at its best. Complete
results at St. Francis YC.

-- Jaren Leet

Annapolis NOOD
May 5-6, 2001

Pos

Bow/Sail

Boat

Skipper

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Points

1

418

Hooked
on Tonics

Cutler,
Alexander

3

8

2

4

4

1

8

30.0

2

351

Inigo

Konigsberg,
Jim

1

3

16/40%

1

1

3

6

31.0

3

USA
90

Plum
Crazy

Skibo,
Andrew

5

2

11

2

2

2

7

31.0

4

83136

NO
MORE TROUBLE

Corcoran,
Jay

10

1

3

12

10

7

1

44.0

5

328

Mirage

Lewis
/ Salvesen, Cedric

7

5

1

3

5

31/DSQ

2

54.0

6

202

eJ

Worsham,
Brad

4

13

9

9

7

6

9

57.0

7

93105

FREEDOM

Schellie,
Pete

2

10

10

8

3

31/DSQ

5

69.0

8

313

A
TRAIN

Reeves,
Robert

8

15

14

13

9

8

10

77.0

9

210

J'MAKIN
WAVES

Olinger,
Steve and Dee

14

18

12

5

13

4

13

79.0

10

US
113

LeRenard

Phillips,
Stephen

6

9

6

18

11

31/DSQ

3

85.0

11

327

MOJO

Bigden,
Julian

18

19

18

10

6

9

11

91.0

12

83415

Dark
Star

Ballou,
Guy

23

28

13

16

8

10

4

102.0

13

321

Rum
Puppy

Biddle,
Jack

11

6

17

7

15

31/DSQ

17

104.0

14

USA
97

ARCHANGEL

Sorensen,
Mark

12

11

19

14

18

16

14

104.0

15

326

MOPELIA

Seynhaeve,
Denis

17

7

22

6

20/40%

11

24

107.0

16

USA
250

el
Toro

Bond,
Thomas

15

23

7

21

19

12

12

109.0

17

264

Orangutan

Gallitano,
David

19

14

5

17

23

13

22

113.0

18

USA
409

Caramba

Fuentes,
Jose

25

4

15

11

12

31/DSQ

20

118.0

19

USA
203

Maccabee

Levitt,
Richard

16

20

16

15

16

31/DSQ

16

130.0

20

62

BAM

Smernoff,
Gerald

13

25

20

23

14

14

23

132.0

21

208

Jay
Boat

Kircher,
John

20

16

24

24

25

17

19

145.0

22

220

UNDERDOG

Behrle,
Tom

26

21

26

25

21

11

18

148.0

23

USA
106

Osprey

Jatlow
/ Ostberg, Ben

9

12

8

27

31/DNF

31/DNC

31/DNF

149.0

24

83082

Singularity

Shortz,
Stanley

21

17

25

19

21

31/DSQ

15

149.0

25

322

White
Knight

Schragger,
Alan

29

22

21

26

22

19

26

165.0

26

308

Suddenly
Sixty

Kushner,
Jack, Dr.

28

24

28

28

17

21

21

167.0

27

USA
252

Zephyr

Nuschke,
Walter L.

24

30

23

22

26

20

25

170.0

28

205

SASSY

Percival,
Robert

22

26

31/DSQ

20

31/DSQ

15

28

173.0

29

194

Merlin

Walker,
Rich

27

29

27

30

27

18

27

185.0

30

163

Maryland
Crab

D'Amato,
Dick

30

27

29

29

24

22

31/DNC

192.0

J/105 Class Spring Championship
At Charleston Race Week, April 26-29

Tom Coates MASQUERADE (1,1,2,4,2)
won a close series by 2 points over Glen Dardens Fort Worth gunslinger
crew on HOSS (2,2,3,2,3) and 3 points on defending champ, Bob Johnstones
TERN V (3,7,1,1,1). Two other local boats filled out the top 5 with Mason Chrismans
CORSAIR edging out Jack Kings MERRYTHOUGHT.

The Bay Area MASQUERADE crew of Danny
Shea, Seadon Wisjen, Mark Chandler and Tracy Usher sailed a consistent series
to extend their Midwinter streak after winning the National Hospice Regatta
in Ft. Lauderdale, finishing second in the SORC and 6th at Key West.
HOSS with Reese Hillard, Tony Walden, Jay Lutz and Yandell Rogers aboard played
the bridesmaid to both MASQUERADE and TERN V to take the runner-up slot giving
the guest out-of-towners the top spots. Not surprising as Charleston has the
reputation of being Americas most hospitable city. Teddy Turner, Jr's
new Charleston Boatworks along with J South provided free storage and crane
services to the visiting boats.

Attendance at Charleston Race Week
grew this year by 35% to 77 boats with one-design classes of J/24s and Melgess
24s as well as 4 PHRF divisions. Sailing conditions were outstanding with everything
from 5-10 knot NW scenic racing around the historic Battery to a 17-22 knot
NE planning breeze for the final race Sunday. Word at the Maritime Center after
racing was that "everyones coming back" and that "Charleston
is their favorite regatta city".

Place

Hull Number

Boat Name

Homeport

Owner

R 1

R 2

R 3

R 4

R 5

Total

1

17

Masquerade

Newport

Tom Coates

1

1

2

4

2

10

2

237

Hoss

Fort Worth

Glen Darden

2

2

3

2

3

12

3

304

Tern V

Charleston

Bob Johnstone

3

7

1

1

1

13

4

228

Corsair

Charleston

Mason Chrisman

5

5

6

3

6

25

5

227

Merrythought

Seabrook Island

Jack King

6

4

7

5

4

26

6

420

C-JEM

Detroit

CJ Ruffing

4

6

4.5

7

7

28.5

7

433

Dead on Arrival

Hilton Head

Lew Gunn

12

3

4.5

6

5

30.5

8

226

Oooh de Pain

Hilton Head

Lou Strayer

8

8

8

9

8

41

9

278

Geechee Grace

Savannah

Schley Knight

7

9

10

8

12

46

10

320

Absolutely!

Hilton Head

Rick Wieters

9

10

9

12

9

49

Ahmanson Cup, NHYC
April 21-22, 2001

The Southern California Fleet (#8)
had it's second High Point Series event this past weekend - the Ahmanson Cup
Regatta at Newport Harbor YC (Newport Beach, CA). The J/105's had seven entries
- 2 from San Diego, 2 from Marina Del Rey/King Harbor, one from Newport Beach,
one from Dana Point and one from Long Beach. The event was run one three separate
courses and classes included PHRF A, B and C, Farr 40, 1D35, J/105, Schock 35,
Olson 30, Santana 30/30 and Melges 24.

Saturday blew like stink. Two of
our 105's didn't make it past the first race - seasick crew, under-crewed and
equipment failures. Those of us who stuck it out were rewarded with incredible
downwind runs and slogs upwind. Top speed on Despicable was 13.9 kts - couldn't
quite get it to 14. Bill
Fields' Ancara from Dana Point was perfect in the wind with 1-1-1 finishes.
The rest of us were bunched up with 8 and 9 and 11 points. Sunday was a very
different day with lighter winds (10-12 max), warmer temps and much more pleasant
sailing. Bryan Dougherty on Legacy from Newport Beach showed us how to do it
with two bullets. Ancara fell to two 4ths, but held on to win. NHYC ran a very
nice regatta. We had a lot of fun (especially on Saturday). The final results
are available at www.NHYC.org.

-- Bill Johnson

San Diego NOOD, SDYC
March 16-18, 2001

Place

Sail Number

Boat Name

Owner

R 1

R 2

R 3

R 4

R 5

R 6

R 7

Total

Fleet

1

100

No Compromise

Dale Byrne / Sharon Case

1

3

1

1

3

3

4

16

J 105

2

435

Incorrigible

Tom Carruthers

4

4

3

2

1

2

3

19

J 105

3

3

Pholly

Phil Gausewitz

5

10

2

5

2

6

1

31

J 105

4

45

J-OK

Stuart Cannon

2

1

6

4

4

8

8

33

J 105

5

280

Jimmy J

Jim Puplava

3

2

5

3

6

7

11

37

J 105

6

374

Despicable

Bill & Lynn Johnson

6

12

4

8

11

1

5

47

J 105

7

434

Ancara

Bill Fields / JB Theders

7

5

7

9

12

5

2

47

J 105

8

372

Agua Diablo

Ken Graff

11

8

9

6

5

10

6

55

J 105

9

401

Air Boss

Jon Dekker

9

7

8

10

10

9

9

62

J 105

10

275

Clouseau

Shala Youngerman

8

6

10

13 ocs

8

12

7

64

J 105

11

356

Ennovate

Eric Axford / Steve Diamond

10

11

11

11

7

4

12

66

J 105

12

297

Pendragon

Howard Lewis

12

9

12

7

9

11

10

70

J 105

The NOOD regatta at San Diego was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 16-18.
The weather was perfect - clear and sunny. In fact, on Sunday
it hit the low 80's ashore! There were about 140 boats in a variety of classes
on three race courses. J/105's raced on the "far ocean" course, and
boy they weren't kidding! What a long way out there. San Diego is the home of
lightish winds, large swellls and kelp. There were 2 races Friday, 3 on Saturday,
and 2 on Sunday. Friday, the top of the fleet were Stuart Cannon in J-OK with
a 2-1 and Dale Byrne/Sharon Case in No Compromise with a 1-3. Tom Carruthers
on Incorrigible was "kelp boy" for the day. I can attest personally,
as I saw Tom emerge from the water between races with a large bunch of kelp.
Apparently it was stuck on the prop shaft strut. He still had a 4-4 for the
day. We on Despicable were notable for trying to impale the legendary Lowell
North with our sprit at a mark rounding. Instead we just bent up Pholly's stern
pulpit pretty good.

Saturday, Byrne and Case continued their ways with an impressive 1-1-3. Incorrigible
came back with a 3-2-1. Phil Gausewitz's Pholly, with Lowell North steering,
recovered from the impalement to a 2-5-2. We, on the other hand, discovered
shrimping the spinnaker at the weather mark, when the halyard clutch wasn't
closed as we approached the mark. Not catcthing enough shrimp for the whole
crew, we did a catch and release. Sunday, the winds came up a little bit - into
the low teens. Byrne/Case and Carruthers continued their battle, with Carruthers
on top with a 2-3 to No Compromise's 3-4. However, it was not enough and No
Compromise won the regatta by 3. Pholly came on strong with a 6-1 and moved
into third overall. Stuart Cannon, who had started out so well, had an off day
with a pair off 8's, but still brought home 4th overall. Jim Puplava on Jimmy-J
had a consistent series until the final race and finished 5th overall. And,
Despicable finally got it going and had a 1-5 to finish 6th overall. San Diego
ran a great regatta and it was fun to see 12 105's on the line. By summer we
should be seeing 15 or so.